The second part of Rachel and Andre’s series on Building an Enterprise Service Bus using WebSphere ESB looks at placing a WebSphere ESB mediation between an MDB and JMS client. In this case the requester and provider both deal in the serialized business object XML but don’t forget that you can use the JMS data bindings to provide custom mappings from other external message formats to that expected by the SCA runtime.
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WebSphere ESB JMS bindings
Monday, December 11th, 2006File conversion
Sunday, December 10th, 2006A plug for a site put together by a Hursley colleague and his brother. Zamzar provides free online file conversion. Upload a document, image, video or music, select the type of conversion, enter your e-mail address and click convert. After a short delay you get an e-mail back with a link to your converted document.
WebSphere Process Server made easy
Saturday, December 9th, 2006The first in a series of three introductory tutorials on WebSphere Process Server is available on developerWorks. Interestingly, the tutorials are aimed at administrators, not developers, and are designed for those coming from a WebSphere Application Server background.
Rational V7 desktop products
Saturday, December 9th, 2006I’m looking forward to laying my hands on the recently announced latest desktop products in the Rational Software Delivery Platform. On developerWorks you can find a selection of articles covering the new features in Rational Application Developer and Rational Software Architect.
WebSphere Business Services Fabric
Saturday, December 9th, 2006Chris has posted on the launch of WebSphere Business Services Fabric v6.0 following IBM’s acquisition of Webify. At the moment this product is only on the very edge of my radar but it’s undoubtedly something I shall be keeping an eye on.
Faster upload
Friday, December 8th, 2006I eventually gave up on the 9 hour upload but, with a little help from Adrian, tracked the problem down to my use of sftp. Having switched to ftp the speed shot up five-hundred fold from 200KB/s to 10MB/s bringing the upload time down to just over 10 minutes! Over the IBM intranet I think I can cope with the lack of security for that much an increase in speed.
Service Registry and Repository Fix Pack 1
Friday, December 8th, 2006The first Fix Pack for WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is now available. The support site only lists a single APAR fix but thanks to Arnauld for pointing out the README file that details the substantial set of improvements that come with this release:
- Added support for WebSphere Application Server ND.
- Install improvements to allow manual database creation.
- Install improvements to allow remote database.
- Ontology API now includes access via Web Services.
- Performance improvements when making large datagraphs governable.
- Performance improvements when importing a large data set.
- Retrieval of data objects can be limited to a depth of 0, 1.
- Additional languages now supported
Shrinking Linux VMware images
Thursday, December 7th, 2006I’ve been putting together a VMware image based on RedHat over the past couple of weeks and the last step was to try and reduce it in size from a massive 18Gb (28Gb if you included the snapshots). Given that 5Gb of this was free space, this should have been relatively easy to achieve. The original disk wasn’t created at a fixed size and, having removed any snapshots and set the disk to be independent-persistent the Shrink panel of VMware tools finally became active. Unfortunately, it only showed the boot partition.
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